PLANNING YOUR TRAVEL

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PLANNING YOUR TRAVEL

• OBJECTIVE HAVING FUN

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Your Vacation

• You know you want to go somewhere and do
  something
• Deciding Where and How
• Making it happen

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Help Making Decisions

• Researching the type of vacation
• Researching the Where do I want to go
• Researching the How do I want to travel
• Doing it!!!!

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Type of Vacation

• Examine your interests and list the kinds of
  vacation that you want this trip

• Adventure
• How physically demanding (10 mile treks up
  mountains or strolls through forests)
• What kind of risks (through jungles with
  poisonous snakes or guided horseback rides)

• Sedentary
• Type of activity golf, cruise, sitting on the
  beach
• Location, location, location

• Sightseeing
• City self-guided or group
• Country self-guided or group

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Research Adventure, Sedentary or Sightseeing

• Research

• Use your favorite search engine
• http//www.google.com/
• http//www.dogpile.com/index.gsp
• http//www.hotsheet.com/

• Use travel sites
• http//travel.yahoo.com/
• http//www.expedia.com/
• http//www.orbitz.com/

• Use specialized sites
• http//www.nps.gov/
• http//www.cruisebrokers.com/, http//www.1-800-cr
  uises.com/, http//www.bestpricecruises.com/,
  http//www.cruiseweb.com/, http//www.cruisecritic
  .com/
• http//www.playgulf.com/, http//www.resortgolf.co
  m/, http//www.troongolfvacations.com/,
  http//www.afgs.com/

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Research How do I want to go

• Examples
• Adventure Galapagos

• Choosing a type of vehicle and price range
• Use general search engine(http//www.google.com/)
  searching multiple ways (1.Galapagos, 2.Galapagos
  vacation)
• Follow appropriate links to get more information
  (http//www.galapagos-inc.com/ourfleet.html)
• What other pieces do you need (travel agent,
  airlines, hotel)

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Research How do I want to go

• Examples
• Sightseeing Amsterdam Self-guided

• Travel arrangements (planes, trains, automobiles)
• Things to see and Places to stay
• Using travel sites
• http//travel.yahoo.com/
• http//www.expedia.com/
• http//www.dogpile.com/index.gsp
• Using travel specialists
• http//www.fodors.com/
• http//www.lonelyplanet.com/
• http//travel.roughguides.com/
• http//www.frommers.com/

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Travel Arrangements

• Planes, Trains, Automobiles, Hotels, Etc.
• Sites to find
• Hotels
• Airlines
• Full Service
• Tour Operators

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Full Service

• Full Service Travel Sites
• http//www.travelocity.com/
• http//travel.yahoo.com/
• http//www.expedia.com/
• Senior Travel Sites
• http//www.elderhostel.org/welcome/home.asp
• http//www.travelswitch.nu/travel/Senior20Travel.
  html
• http//travel.state.gov/olderamericans.html

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Tickets

• Airlineshttp//www.travelocity.com/
• http//travel.yahoo.com/
• http//www.expedia.com/
• http//www.bestfares.com/home.asp
• http//www.cheaptickets.com/trs/cheaptickets/home
  /index_01.xsl
• Specific airlines
• http//www.continental.com/
• http//www.aa.com/
• http//www.delta.com/home/index.jsp

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Hotels

• Hotel Specialistshttp//www.hotels.com/http//ww
  w.180096hotel.com/http//www.allluxuryhotels.com/
  http//all-hotels.com/http//www.a1-discount-hot
  els.com/
• http//www.hotel-directory.com/
• http//www.accommodationspecials.com/
• http//www.hotelsatanywhere.com/

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Tour Operators

• http//www.affordabletours.com/
• http//www.tauck.com/
• http//www.cheapertravel.com/
• http//www.globusandcosmos.com
• http//www.trafalgartours.com/

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Supplies

• Books, maps, camera, medications, internet
  access, weather
• http//www.magellantravelbooks.com/
• http//www.moon.com/
• http//www.worldofmaps.com/
• http//www.longitudebooks.com/
• http//www.hikyaku.com/jpmail/cyberc.html
• http//www.cyberiacafe.net/cyberia/guide/ccafe.htm
  
• http//www.weather.com/
• http//wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/index.as
  p?partneraccuweather
• Special considerations
• Insurance (search on travel insurance, ask your
  travel agent, or friends who travel)
• Health requirements (CDC-http//www.cdc.gov/travel
  /)

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• HAVE FUN